Mg-doped congruent LiTaO3 crystal for large-aperture quasi-phase matching device

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 16963-16970

  Ishizuki, Hideki ^a   Taira, Takunori ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

COERCIVE FIELD; CONGRUENT COMPOSITIONS; HIGH POWER; LARGE APERTURE; MG-DOPING; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATIONS; PERIODICALLY POLED; QUASI-PHASE-MATCHING;

PHASE MATCHING;

LITHIUM; LITHIUM TANTALATE OXIDE; MAGNESIUM; OXIDE; TANTALUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; LITHIUM; MAGNESIUM; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; OXIDES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TANTALUM;

EID: 54249096446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.016963     Document Type: Article

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